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@naila What will the childcare situation be? If you’ve got family or a nanny watching your kids, I wouldn’t see it as an issue, especially if your husband works nearby. But assuming you will use a daycare center or in home provider, I wouldn’t risk being that far away from daycare in the event...

@kpiper I did actually interview for a new position in my office - still waiting to hear back. As someone else here has said, the new position is not exactly fulfilling or within my usual skill set, but this isn’t the season for that. I think I could manage a job like that if it felt worth my...

@kpiper I’m not back to work yet but I’m terrified I’m not going to be able to get thru the days as I was already very unsatisfied before I went on maternity leave. I’m in the legal field but my work deals with mental health and child welfare. I was constantly disagreeing with the way things...

@terrastorm You have a routine - you feed your baby. You change their diaper. You make sure they nap. And you give them a bath. You may not have a schedule and that’s ok at that age. You’ll get there. We didn’t have one til she was about 3.5 months old.

@quando62 I spent about 6 weeks reducing pumps and time pumping. It was very slow at first - I didn’t want to tank my supply right away and was also nervous about making the switch to formula because my baby has MSPI and I was so worried about giving up this food source. Once I got past my...

@zoznoz I began pumping at 1 week PP due to a bad latch and it didn’t take long before I planned when I wanted to wean by. There’s nothing abnormal or wrong with what you’re feeling. And there’s nothing wrong with formula feeding. I didn’t stop sooner because I couldn’t figure out how to wean, lol.

@1stjohn0666 I see. I work from home 2x a week myself so I still bring her in regular time and run errands on the way home. Maybe you could make it a little more than just a drive for daycare?

@1stjohn0666 Just chiming in to say that a 15 min drive each way doesn't sound that bad for daycare. With traffic ours can take about 20 minutes and that's a 7 mile drive. We did not want an in home childcare situation and that's all that was available in our town. There were 3 big chains and a...

@nicolecham Take what is free or inexpensive from your insurance. Best laid plans often don’t work out as you’ve expected and it’s better to be safe than sorry. I was an unexpected exclusive pumper but when the time came to choose between continuing to pump and formula feed, it was honestly...

@katieheals We did a 6.5 ounce bottle before each nap, plus an 8 ounce bottle before bedtime, and because she wasn’t night weaned, a small bottle overnight. She only reliably drank before nap time, so we started bottles about 45 minutes before the nap and finished whatever was left as part of...

@katrina2017 Yeah I feel like I woke up one day and went from 8 to 5-6. Even at 4 a day I was still pumping the same amount. 3 a day was when it really started to decline. I went down to 1 pretty quickly after that and only did 1 a day for two days and decided I had enough lol. I ate some real...

@loveisintheairkathryn I weaned over the course of 6 weeks. Slow and steady won the race for me - I had one clogged duct at the very end for about 2 days and that was it. It sounds like your wife is still removing the same amount of milk at the same frequency so she’s not going to have much...